Me and my partner just started playing Diablo 2! It's my very first time playing it and it's so much fun. I can't wait to see what more is to come! I'm playing Necromancer and my partner is playing Druid. But I've enjoyed the hell out of it so far. 😈 also my skeleton is very spastic but that's hilarious 😂

If any of these changes seem too overpowered please let me know. I love learning about this game and I'm by no means an expert on this game or game design in general. This was just for fun.

Here's a few things I should clarify:

1. The idea I had for Evade is that it reduces defense by a percentage while running and not that it no longer reduces defense by any amount that you might think from how I wrote it.

2. The weapon masteries on Barb don't mean you can dual wield two two-handed weapons, just that you can wield one without penalty but the other weapon he holds must be either a shield or a one-handed weapon (or a two-handed sword with the normal damage penalty).

3. Inferno AOE refers to how big the actual flame you shoot is. My idea is that it will also get wider as you level up and cover much more of the screen while using it.

Not bad!

Yes that is an Ethereal Sacred Armor next to it, but I am much more clear on how I would use that. Would anybody self-use a Sacred Armor, and for what?

Stupidly lost my freshly made shaled bonesnap on Sunday, got annoyed, went farming for a replacement and got this instead. My first ever since although I played the original back in 2000, I didn’t play the expansion. Feeling better now so back to farming. Thanks for reading.

+7 to BO!!

Holy shit guys I am so freaking overwhelmed.... This is my first and only Ber ever, what the.....

My story with D2 started around 2003-2004, played in a local bulgarian server called 'Headoff', mainly just for fun, back then I didn't really understand the mechanics, techniques, quirks, etc, but I had sooo much fun... what a time it was. Now, just barely a month ago, I started a single player D2R offline sc replay, with a sorceress, I was just casually leveling, building an adaptive MF build, skills split into blizz (rest in CM and spike for freeze) and nova (rest into static + LM), coz I have no sunder charms yet, no skillers, almost no end-game items:

-spirit sword/ancient's pledge shield

-vipermagi 33/12, almost perfect

-vidala amulet + boots for 50% MF and some res

-nightsmoke belt

-25MF ring + Nagelring 25MF

-3x perf topaz helmet for 72MF

-Insight merc with Cure and Treachery

So with this setup I have 191% MF and 81% FCR, and I BERly feel comfortable on hell with 1 player and tricky with 3 players... Current level is 85. I have yet to finish my build but I am pretty happy about getting this Ber right now. The roll gods were pretty scroogy with the rune drops - I barely have some mid runs, and Ber was my first one.

I welcome any comments about my build and/or if you have any tips. Wishing you all some Ber luck!

(Offline Solo) I know I’ve seen a lot that Enigma is better to make first because it unlocks so many other builds for your account. I understand the logic. I have found a Ber & Sur in LK runs with my sorc. If I find another Sur or Ber, I’m really tempted to make the Infinity.

I’ve never had one before… would self-weld ES Nova sorc be strong enough to let me farm other areas on p7? I don’t have really anything else (No shako, griff, viper or arach). Being able to easier farm p7 pits, CS, etc would be nice to mix things up.

Is there a good reason to wait and make the enigma first? Would the nova sorc be strong enough without the other items? Any help would be great! (Thankful to even have the problem of being close!)

Edit: I realized I was secretly hoping you’d all tell me that Infinity would be a good first option. I hear ya loud and clear… Enigma is the right move, Infinity is the hasty move to have something now

I made it to 99 with the offline throw barb. It wasn’t quite as bad as I thought, although I didn’t keep track of the hours. I died 1 bar from 99 in chaos so I took a little break, but I eventually got there.

I spent the majority of my time in the beginning grinding Act 1 on p8, terrorized. I played around with gear and the skill tree quite a bit before finding a system that allowed me to run tombs on p8. When I was feeling ballsy I ran chaos and Baal on p8 as well, but clear speed suffered in those zones.

I decided to go for 99 with the barb because I hadn’t done it with a melee character, and I did not like the barb to be honest. He is a bit slower than casters, but with some gear tinkering and creative play he is very capable of clearing things quickly. I think throw barb is one of my favorite characters now because it forced me to have a more engaged play style and I learned a lot about melee. 

I’ll post gear for anyone that is curious, it differs from what most people think is “BIS.” I tried crushing blow gear but I found that maximizing sheet damage and focusing on enemies that were amplified is what worked best for me. 

Arreats w/ protector stone

Highlords

Eth warshrike 249% ed

Eth lacerator 210% ed

2x hoto on swap

Enigma 

Raven frost + dual leech ar ring

Arachnid mesh

Steelrend 55% ed and sometimes loh

War travelers

-10 physical res bone break

Torch, anni, max damage/attack rating/life charms

Thanks for reading!

Pulled this from a mob, and I’m never good at recognizing god charms except for the obvious ones. Is this one valuable?

I know poison turns off regen. If that was the only thing wouldn't you only need 1 charm of 6 seconds and it wouldn't matter whether it had both a suffix and prefix? Its still turning off the regen. Is that the only reason people want poison?

Phys Damage charms have incredibly tiny values. Do people prioritize them for the attack rating? Why not get the pure attack rating small charms than?

Good day everyone. Single player here and I've played D2 lord of destruction (pluggy) before, did thousands of LK runs, boss/area farming, etc.

I started playing D2R (sorceress lvl 6) and I was wondering if there are any new tips and tricks or QoL improvements that I should be aware of.

Also I always used F-keys for skill hotkeys back in the days. Is the alphabet hotkey (zxcv) more comfortable?

Thanks for reading.

Clearing Abbadon on my fury druid, wish they had lightning instead of poison but they're still quite good I think!

Is this Sorc Circ any good beyond early self use? It looks like most of the valuable ones need 2 slots but I am newer to D2. Sorry for any repeat questions.

Thank you everyone!

A bit of a longshot but if anyone can help me get my corpse back from the middle of a herald pack in the maggot lair I can pay some mid runes... I equipped a dagger to use blade warp to try to get my body back and failed multiple times and somehow I was not aware that I will lose all my gear if I leave the game due to this....

Please forgive me if I post something dumb, I do not know anything about this bracket, almost sold this helmet, then I saw that lvl30 requirement.

If this is a shitty item, please tell me why, and be nice.:)

What's the best use for the runes I just found? Maybe I can wait til I get a Lo rune for a Phoenix, or I can use my Vex rune to get an Ohm rune and make a Faith bow with my +3 Matriarchal Bow for my Bowazon.

Which is the better option?

Time for that target farm.

Link: https://lozzajp.github.io/D2-SCP/

If you saw my post the other day, I made a Lower Kurast calculator for people to aim at finding runes in chests. River of Flame works basically the same way and is probably easier to work with.

Still an involved setup, and clunky website to use, but it works. New video on using it including the calibration step, and some mspaint to explain the RNG along the way.

It's not exact or guaranteed, but it gets you much closer than to random chance. The trade off is missing out on gems and gcs etc. though. For Vex+ it's probably worthwhile, and for Ber+ targetting even better.

Zods? Yea it could support Act 5 chests too for them, I don't know them super well if there are any that would spawn with a good consistent setup. Might look into it one day, but for now I am a bit burnt out and just going to get back to playing the game for a bit. I might do a RoF post like my LK one too.

I know some people will hate on it like the other post, but I've had some nice messages from people with this helping them, they can't afford a PC or have other impediments stopping them from grinding out runes. It's offline, just let them play how they want, and if this gets them playing more Diablo 2 and enjoying it, that sounds good to me.

Some FAQs from people using the tool already:

Do I need to calibrate waypoints? No, this was an idea I had to quickly move the RNG so you don't wait as long. In theory works but is less granular. Try it out if you want though, if you calibrate enough you can probably start taking some crack shots at 20m+ Jahs within seconds.

Do I need to get the seed every new game? Yes, each new game start gets a new random seed. Get the seed and then either use the seed to calibrate or run.

Do I need to refresh the gamble window? No, in fact never. You need the gamble window, in Act 1, from its starting state. I think if you look at the regular vendor inventory or do other things and come back it won't work. Go straight from spawn to Gheed.

Do I need to change the fire rate? For PC and PS5 Probably not, unless something is happening between different devices I don't know about. For Switch and Xbox, I assume keep the PS5 settings, but I haven't nailed that down yet. I don't own it on Xbox or Switch to sort it out on those consoles.

Will it work on Xbox/Switch? I don't see why not, I can't check and set it all myself, but the fire rate is variable so you can change it yourself if calibration alone doesn't keep the RNG steady.

Any other questions? Ask below I'll add it here!

Hey guys.

I just found my first soj on my mf hydra/frozen orb sorc and am now wondering which character would be best to play as #2 if I want to actually get an anni from that. Thinking about a smiter or sth.

Playing offline single player btw.

Paladin- im tired of foh/hammers has anyone tried holyshock zeal using say a crescent moon PB? Can that handle higher player count terrorzones? Want to push some levels.

Barb- assume dog gear, using grief is so far down the road its laughable. How viable is WW without dual grief? Can anything handle terrorized trav?

Thank you all for yourbtime and knowledge. I currently have a blizz sorc 85 and a warlock at 78.